Archive for February 2022

We watched in horror as a herd of 200 sheep threw themselves off the cliff while Farmer Oak looked on helplessly. “Far From the Madding Crowd” — a British romance — had started off with an especially graphic pivotal plot twist. And it most certainly confirmed what I had always heard about sheep. Sheep follow the…

How are you holding up during this month’s emphasis on Valentine’s Day and Love? Whether you have relished every single heart, piece of chocolate, flowers, cards, and mushy love songs… or whether you feel like you will scream if you see another exultation of a love-relationship-you-don’t-have… let me just say that Love (all kinds) is…

Do you remember the summer you were thirty-one years old? Honestly, I don’t. But lately some memories are trickling through… Such as our glorious joyful wedding celebration and then driving together up the Pacific coast from my old home near San Francisco to my new home near Seattle with the Welcome Home sign hanging on…

On the second morning of her African journey, Lettie noticed all her guides had stopped and refused to move, “Why aren’t we ready to forge ahead?” she asked the leader in an agitated manner. His reply, “On the first day we traveled too fast. Now we are waiting for our souls to catch up with…